Ericksonian Practitioner
Milton Erickson
Milton Erickson was the foremost practitioner of Hypnotherapy in the USA and one of the original therapeutic wizards modelled in the 70’s by the co-founder’s of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Erickson’s approach emphasised:
- meeting the client at their model - He considered each person unique and responded to the whole person and their whole ‘world’.
- creating a theory for each person - He considered every person to be complete with the necessary resources, but as yet not organised to accomplish the change themselves.
- vehicles of influence - He considered his words, intonations, use of language and body movements, as vehicles of influence. He tailored them to each individual, utilising anecdotes and metaphors, to assist them to make the desired changes.